Delivery of Multimedia Application

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Delivery of Multimedia Application
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Preparing for Delivery

• Prepare your files easily transferred from your
  media to the users platform
• Install special system and run-time files
• Need to provide a single program that acts as an
  installation routine
• Mindvisions Installer Vise
• Aladdins InstallerMaker

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Preparing for Delivery

• Important to provide well-written documentation
  about installation process
• Step-by-step procedure to follow
• Also include a discussion of potential problems
• Platform requirements to avoid unnecessary
  problem
• README.TXT

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File Archives

• Compressing file
• Less time to transmit via network
• Archive
• One or more files can be compressed into a single
  file
• Self-extracting archives are useful for
  delivering projects on disks
• DiskDoubler, StuffIt Deluxe, WinZip

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Audio and Video Streaming

• Audio file is broken up into smaller pieces
  (streams) and then sent from the server to the
  clients machine, the browser on the clients
  machine uses a helper application (like Real
  Audio) to re-assemble the audio stream.
• Advantage
• No waiting (or very little) from the time the
  mouse is clicked until the time the sounds starts
  playing
• Key providers Real Networks, Apple and Microsoft
• 8Khz (2.5KB/s), 16KHz (5KB/s)